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What were you doing when you were a high school student? Well, one teenager in Australia has accomplished more than you were likely capable of doing at the time… even if it was illegal. According to a report from The Age, a 16-year-old high school student in Australia managed to hack into the Apple servers and then proceeded to download 90GB of “secure files.” The boy was also able to access multiple customer accounts.
Despite the teen’s best efforts, the Australian Federal Police executed a search warrant on his home after tracking IP addresses to multiple devices in his possession.
“Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems,” a prosecutor said. “A mobile phone and hard drive were also seized and the IP address … matched the intrusions into the organization. The purpose was to connect remotely to the company’s internal systems.”
From MacRumors:
Details of the case are still sketchy, but the boy’s hacking is said to have begun at the age of 16, and included downloading tens of gigabytes of secure files and accessing “authorized keys” that grant login access to users.
The boy is said to have attempted to hide his identity using a number of methods including “computerized tunnels”, a system which had “worked flawlessly” until the teen was caught.
The teen, who allegedly carried out the attacks because he was “such a fan of the company” and hoped to work there, has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next month.
It’s highly unlikely that his dream job will ever come to fruition, too.
